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Foibe killings Remembrance Day

for the people thrown into the karstic sinkholes

Today the Italian State commemorates the victims of the Foibe killings, as established by law no. 92 of 30 March 2004. The Foibe are karstic sinkholes where, from 1943 to 1947, nearly ten thousands Italians were thrown both dead and alive.

After the signature of the armistice of 8 September 1943 in Istria and Dalmatia the Slavic partisans flung themselves against the fascists and the non-Communist Italians considered as invaders.
In Spring 1945, Yugoslavia occupied Trieste, Gorizia and Istria and its army flung itself against the Italians. Thrown into the karstic sinkholes were fascists, Catholics, liberaldemocrats, socialists, clergymen, women, elder people and children. The persecution went on until 1947, when the border between Italy and Yugoslavia was settled.

The place symbol of the massacre is the Foiba of Basovizza, declared a national monument. The President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano declared, in the course of the ceremony in the Quirinale: "In each Country we have the duty to cultivate one's own memories, not to delete the scars left by the sufferings undergone by one's own people".

For Foibe killings Remebrance Day the Italian public broadcasting channel RAI produced the first 3D documentary entitled as Foibe, written and directed by Roberto Olla, which gathers important pieces of testimony by Graziano Udovisi, who survived the foibe and died last year, and Licia Cossetto, the sister of a victim called Norma.

10 February 2011

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